Fact-Check: Fake claim alleging Canada to request FATF to blacklist India goes viral. Here’s the truth
Megha Bajaj 
Fake claim alleging Canada to request FATF to blacklist India goes viral. Here's the truth
Pakistan-based handles took to social media platform X(formerly Twitter) and claimed: “according to unofficial reports, Canada is likely to request FATF to blacklist India for terrorism on foreign soil”
Posting an image of PM Modi and Former Canadian PM Trudeau, a user named Asad Nasir wrote: “According to unofficial reports, Canada is likely to request FATF to blacklist India for terrorism on foreign soil”
In addition, another account named Ironclad shared the image of Former Canadian PM Trudeau and made a similar claim. The preview link can be seen here .
Fact-Check
The DFRAC team investigated this claim and found it to be fake.
We conducted a keyword search related to the above-shared claim and found that there were no reports available online to support it.
On the contrary, we came across the latest report by News 18 stating that after FATF’s relaxation on the Pakistan Army, Pakistan is willing to release terrorists of the proxy outfits from the POK, It’s a move that violates FATF guidelines.
Conclusion
It is clear from DFRAC’s fact-check that the viral claim alleging that Canada to request FATF to blacklist India for terrorism on foreign soil is fake since no such reports have come to light in this regard.
Siddharth Urmil 
